Failure Quotes
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America is now a land that rewards failure - at the personal, corporate, and state level.
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Fact: From quitting smoking to skiing, we succeed to the degree we try, fail, and learn. Studies show that people who worry about mistakes shut down, but those who are relaxed about doing badly soon learn to do well. Success is built on failure.
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Microsoft is always two years away from failure.
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The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.
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Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.
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While I've had plenty of ups and downs, dealt with my share of failure, and struggled through emotionally difficult periods, I'm fundamentally an optimist.
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Given the extent of the exposures of major banks around the world to A.I.G., and in light of the extreme fragility of the system, there was a significant risk that A.I.G.'s failure could have sparked a global banking panic.
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Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all.
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I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.
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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.
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The prizes of life are at the end of each journey, not near the beginning; and it is not given to me to know how many steps are necessary in order to reach my goal. Failure I may still encounter at the thousandth step, yet success hides behind the next bend in the road. Never will I know how close it lies unless I turn the corner.
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I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks.
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We must remember that failure gives us chances to grow, and we ignore those chances at our own peril.
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But there is still a considerable difference between a failure to do enough that is right and a determination to do much that is wrong.
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It's a failure of imagination if you can only write what you know - we have to be able to imagine different worlds.
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Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.
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Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure.
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The vast majority of people are born, grow up, struggle and go through life in misery and failure, not realizing that it would be just as easy to switch over and get exactly what they want out of life, not recognizing that the mind attracts the thing it dwells upon.
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The pursuit of holiness must be anchored in the grace of God; otherwise it is doomed to failure.
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The terror of failure can make you feel like a failure. So a bunch of people think you're not very good at your thing. How much do you invest in what they say? How much do you care? Failure is not putting yourself on the line.
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The greatest failure in life is to stop trying.
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If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.
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We're just afraid, period. Our fear is free-floating. We're afraid this isn't the right relationship or we're afraid it is. We're afraid they won't like us or we're afraid they will. We're afraid of failure or we're afraid of success. We're afraid of dying young or we're afraid of growing old. We're more afraid of life than we are of death.
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I want to risk hitting my head on the ceiling of my talent. I want to really test it out and say: O.K., you're not that good. You just reached the level here. I don't ever want to fail, but I want to risk failure every time out of the gate.
